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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 05/12] xen: numa-sched: make space
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>>> On 06.11.13 at 17:12, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> The question Dario has is this: given that we now have per-vcpu hard and 
> soft scheduling affinity, how should we automatically construct the 
> per-domain memory allocation affinity, if at all?  Should we construct 
> it from the "hard" scheduling affinities, or from the "soft" scheduling 
> affinities?
> 
> I said that I thought we should use the soft affinity; but I really 
> meant the "effective soft affinity" -- i.e., the union of soft, hard, 
> and cpupools.

Actually I think trying on the most narrow set first (soft) and then
widening (hard, anywhere) is indeed the most sensible approach
then.

Jan